IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the early nineteenth century, ...
A lens manufactured in France in 1902 is shining high atop Montauk Point Lighthouse once again. Earlier this month the U.S. Coast Guard relit the clamshell-shaped Fresnel lens, which guided mariners ...
PORT TOWNSEND — Point Wilson Lighthouse is lit once again with its original 1879 Fresnel lens. Out of commission for decades, the historic lens was relit on Oct. 29. “Relighting this historic optic is ...
PORT TOWNSEND — The United States Lighthouse Society will host an event Saturday to celebrate the restoration of Point Wilson’s historic 1879 Fresnel lens. The light from the Fresnel lens is replacing ...
Joanne Baker enjoys a biography of the doughty French inventor of the bull's-eye lens, the secret of the modern lighthouse. Nineteenth-century French physicist Augustin Fresnel worked the physical ...
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